From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:40:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161017094057.2deebcab.mgorny@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <assp.00988eaa46.2930195.jnaPfexEz7@wlt>
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 03:37:28 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 17, 2016 8:57:30 AM EDT Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:30:44 -0400
> >
> > "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com> wrote:
> > > Part of the idea is to help differentiate the types of binaries in tree to
> > > hopefully get less binaries that are from source.
> > >
> > > To start I just wanted to see about a policy for -bin, the other stuff was
> > > just extra after -bin itself was a policy. Unless it made sense to develop
> > > it in full,
> > >
> > > -bin - Closed source binary ebuild
> > > -ebin - Self made binary from source
> > > -sbin - Binary ebuild of an open source package
> >
> > Let's also add -c for C programs, and -cxx for C++ programs. -py for
> > pure Python stuff, -cpy when stuff includes extensions compiled in C,
> > -cxxpy extensions in C++. We should also have special -x86asm suffix
> > for packages that rely on non-portable x86 assembly, or maybe even
> > -x86asm-sse when they use some fancy instruction sets. And then don't
> > forget to add a suffix for license, for GUI library (because obviously
> > nobody wants GTK+ software on KDE systems, nor GTK+3 software on GTK+
> > systems).
>
> Clearly being sarcastic as a binary is a binary. It doesn't matter what
> language, toolkit etc.
It doesn't matter for you. It may matter for others. Much like having
binary signaled in name may not matter to others. Which is why in-band
signaling is a bad idea.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-14 17:05 [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-14 17:09 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-14 17:17 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-14 17:29 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-15 10:32 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-10-15 22:00 ` Austin English
2016-10-16 22:20 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 8:21 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-23 8:46 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-10-14 17:36 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-10-14 18:05 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-14 18:15 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-14 20:48 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 17:41 ` Brian Evans
2016-10-14 21:00 ` William Hubbs
2016-10-14 21:10 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-14 21:14 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-15 3:10 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-16 22:30 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 1:19 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-17 2:43 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 5:43 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-17 16:10 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-10-17 4:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2016-10-17 5:36 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-18 5:36 ` Duncan
2016-10-17 6:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2016-10-17 7:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-17 7:30 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-10-17 7:41 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 7:49 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-10-17 12:20 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-17 13:44 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 13:47 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-10-17 13:52 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 13:56 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 14:11 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-10-17 13:52 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-10-17 14:04 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 14:09 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-10-17 14:13 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-10-17 14:34 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 14:54 ` Michael Mol
2016-10-17 15:01 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-17 15:10 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 15:00 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-10-17 15:09 ` Michał Górny
2016-10-17 16:08 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-10-17 16:51 ` NP-Hardass
2016-10-17 8:46 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-17 13:39 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 15:02 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-17 7:37 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 7:40 ` Michał Górny [this message]
2016-10-17 13:40 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 17:09 ` Michael Mol
2016-10-17 17:25 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-17 8:29 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-17 13:32 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 15:18 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-17 15:48 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 16:08 ` Michał Górny
2016-10-17 16:18 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 17:34 ` Michał Górny
2016-10-17 20:03 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-17 20:34 ` Michał Górny
2016-10-17 20:43 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2016-10-18 15:15 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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